New Zealand history

• New Zealand in the nineteenth century
• Social Welfare - New Zealand, 1891-1980
• Race Relations - New Zealand: Maori and Pakeha, 1912-1980
• Social Change - Women's Impact on New Zealand Society: Health, 1915-1985
• International Relations - New Zealand's Search for Security, 1945-1985
• The growth of New Zealand identity, 1890-1980
• The 1981 Springbok Tour

New Zealand in the nineteenth century

The Colonies

Kevin Boon

Some other good books are:

• Making peoples: a history of the New Zealanders from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century by James Belich
• The Penguin history of New Zealand by Michael King
• The Oxford illustrated history of New Zealand
• A history of New Zealand by Keith Sinclair
• The story of New Zealand by Judith Bassett
• New Zealand: the making of a colony, 1815-1870: maps from the New Zealand historical atlas by Steve Watters
• New Zealand: an emerging identity, 1870s-1930s: maps from the New Zealand historical atlas by Steve Watters
• New Zealand's burning: the settlers' world in the mid 1880s by Rollo Arnold
• A tribute to our ancestors: true stories and anecdotes
• The book of New Zealand women: ko kui ma te kaupapa
• The dictionary of New Zealand biography. There are many volumes of this series worth looking at.
• Pioneer families: the settlers of nineteenth-century New Zealand by Angela Caughey

Social Welfare - New Zealand, 1891-1980

• The sugarbag years by Tony Simpson. The definitive guide to the Great Depression in New Zealand.
• The New Zealand Liberals: the years of power, 1891-1912 by David Hamer

Race Relations - New Zealand: Maori and Pakeha, 1912-1980

• People and promises: Maori and Pakeha relations 1912-1980 by George Bowen

For more books on this topic, try the following catalogue search:

• New Zealand -- Race relations

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Social Change - Women's Impact on New Zealand Society: Health, 1915-1985

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  Ettie: a life of Ettie Rout by Jane Tolerton
• Princess Te Puea by Kevin Boon
• Early stories from founding members of the Maori Women's Welfare League by Mira Szaszy

International Relations - New Zealand's Search for Security, 1945-1985

Warrior nation: New Zealanders at the front 1900-2000

John Thomson

• Conflict in Asia, 1950-1972: 
  • Korea, 1950-1953 
  • Malaya, 1955-1964 
  • Vietnam, 1965-1972 
• The Peacekeepers

This is a 3 volume set of clippings compiled by Auckland City Library staff. They are not for loan. Please ask for these at the  Auckland Research Centre on the second floor of the Central City Library.

Other good books are:

• Independence and foreign policy: New Zealand in the world since 1935 by Malcolm McKinnon
• Paper tiger: New Zealand's part in SEATO, 1954-1977
• New Zealand in world affairs III, 1972-1990
• The ANZUS partners by Dora Alves. An American perspective.
• New Zealand and the Korean War by Ian McGibbon
• New Zealand in Vietnam by Ruper Glover. This also deals with SEATO - The South East Asia Treaty Organisation.
• Ten minutes to midnight by Colin Amery. An account of the Rainbow Warrior affair and its aftermath.

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The growth of New Zealand identity, 1890-1980

In addition to the books recommended above, try:

• New Zealand! New Zealand!: in praise of kiwiana by Stephen Barnett & Richard Wolfe
• Kiwiana: the sequel by Stephen Barnett & Richard Wolfe
• Our people, our century by Paul Smith
• Inventing New Zealand: everyday myths of Pakeha identity by Claudia Bell
• The Tauiwi: the later immigrants by Ruth Naumann

The 1981 Springbok Tour

For books about the 1981 (and the 1956) tour try this search:

• Springbok tour

There's even a couple of novels about the 1981 Tour:

• Sitting on the fence by Bill Nagelkerke
• The name of the game by David Hill

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